Location: Raleigh, NC
URL: http://www.lulu.com
Overview:
Are JJG, Jakob, and Jared your spiritual guides? Do you dive into discussions on design principles, design patterns, and UI components? Do you dream in boxes and arrows?
Lulu is looking for a passionate User Experience designer who is detail oriented with strong organizational and project management skills to work on our growing family of print-on-demand (POD) web services. You should be able to juggle and switch between many projects at once, and be able to make creative decisions on the fly, and to work independently. As a User Experience designer for Lulu.com, you are a tireless advocate for the needs of our customers. Your job is to mold Lulu’s products and tools into finely-tuned, engaging experiences that are both engines of productivity and sources of delight. You are driven to understand problems, and relish the challenge of designing solutions.
Responsibilities:
⢠Work with business leaders, users, graphic designers, and our engineering teams to design and mockup screens and workflows
⢠Research competitive solutions and alternative designs
⢠Participate and assist with user testing and interpretation for your projects and other UX designs
⢠Balance complexity (conflicting user requests, business requirements, developer needs, and your own schedule) to produce beautiful, simple, outstanding experiences for lulu users
⢠Document, communicate, cajole, evangelize and interpret new ideas and user needs across various parts of Lulu
⢠Revel in the dynamic participatory wonder of a fast-growing startup business – see actual change happen every day
⢠Attend events to meet real, live lulu users and learn about their needs
⢠Build out quick mockups, and create new screens and workflows, and improve existing pages
⢠Contribute to standards and best practices in a dynamic and evolving work environment
⢠Use both sides of your brain
Qualifications:
⢠Believe in designing customer experiences, not just usable interfaces
⢠Comfortable working in a highly-collaborative work environment
⢠Ability to clearly communicate ideas and designs to both developers and business stakeholders
⢠Be comfortable with constructive criticism and leveraging it to make your designs better
⢠Familiarity with current trends in user experience design and the web, and an eye for for emerging trends
⢠Expertise in OmniGraffle, Visio, Photoshop, and other design tools
⢠A sponge-like brain that soaks up new ideas
⢠Solid background designing and developing usable consumer-oriented web-based interfaces
⢠Familiar with current trends in web development: AJAX, web standards, semantic HTML, etc.
⢠Working understanding of HTML/CSS/Javascript
⢠Strong visual design sense
⢠BS or MS in something interesting, or equivalent experience
⢠Strong online design portfolio, including wireframes, mockups, user flows, or other IA
Bonus Points:
⢠Experience in using site analytics to track site usage and define UX performance metrics
⢠A solid grounding in the foundational principles of product design and visual design
⢠Information architecture, industrial design, or other formal design background
⢠Experience with agile development practices such as XP and Scrum
⢠Expertise in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
⢠Familiarity with PHP, ActionScript, and/or Flex
⢠Familiarity with MVC-based web development
⢠Internationalization and accessibility experience
⢠Experience with usability testing, ethnography, contextual inquiry
⢠Technical writing
⢠Writing/blogging experience
To apply: Interested? Please visit www.lulu.com/jobs to complete our application process.